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Bishop Francis Redwood was born on the 8th April 1839 in Staffordshire, England.
In 1842, when he was three years old, he sailed with is parents to New Zealand and the family settled in Waimea in the Nelson District. He went to school in Nelson.
When Francis grew up he went to Ireland to study, and was ordained a priest there in 1865.
When Francis was consecrated as the second bishop of Wellington at the age of 35, he was the youngest Roman Catholic Bishop in the world and when he died at the age of 95 he was the oldest!
Bishop Redwood became Archbishop Redwood on 13th May 1887.
He was very important to Wellington.
In his lifetime he established numerous churches, hospitals and orphanages.
He was the founder of St Patrick's College in Wellington in 1856 and lived to open St Patrick's Silverstream in the Hutt Valley in 1931.
He lived simply and will be remembered as a person who served God by serving the church for many many years.
By Katie O'Hagan and
